Opinion: Zelenskyy is the problem, not his friends
By DW
23 July 2022 |
5:06 pm
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired leading security officials in the middle of a war. But the president's public rebuke only obscures the real problem: lack of reform, says Eugen Theise.
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